Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the body of knowledge associated with consumer socialisation. We investigate how children function as socialisation agents for their parents in influencing their purchase intentions of computer and high-tech products – essentially the idea of the young educating the old. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the extant literature relat...

Why do contact frequencies with general practice of family members resemble each other? Many aspects related to the clustering of health-care utilisation within families have been studied, but the underlying mechanisms have not been addressed. This article considers whether family similarity in contact frequency with general practice can be explained as (a) a result of shared circumstances, (b)...

Family socialisation processes have been shown to have a significant influence on a variety of health-related behaviours. In this study two aspects of family life--the family's social position, and patterns of support and control by parents of their adolescent offspring--are examined in relation to young peoples self-reports of levels of drinking by a representative randomly selected sample of ...

Salmon’s (2000) proposed model for the effective development of on-line communication and collaboration between student suggests that on-line socialisation forms an early and important component of establishing required levels of comfort and skill. In this paper we review research with Chinese learners that suggests that some adjustments to Salmon’s model may be advisable for these students. Sp...

BACKGROUND Intergroup problems among physicians, nurses and administrators in healthcare settings sometimes retard such settings' ability to foster enhanced quality of care. Without knowledge of the social dynamics that generate the difficulties, it is impossible to address some crucial issues that may affect quality initiatives. METHODS This paper reviews three types of dynamics, social iden...

The linguistic choices teachers and educators make in their spheres of influence depend on own language experiences how these have shaped thinking. In this article, we draw teacher beliefs, social activism socialisation perspectives to demonstrate the potential impact Multilingual Socialisation (M-SOC) tool. This theory-informed tool was designed to: (1) visible multilingual practices where the...